Word: diets
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...generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power of language to transcend life's banalities, rather than for big-nose jokes. McCaughrean hopes that teenage lovers, raised on a diet of "wall-to-wall sex, violence and misery," will buy Cyrano for Valentine's Day. "But everybody," she says, "should be subverted by romance now and again." McCaughrean's ease on literary giants' shoulders may have swayed the panel of Pan judges. But their description of her suggested treatment...
...FIRST OTC DIET PILL...
...advisory-panel decision holds, a nonprescription version of the diet drug Xenical may soon hit stores. Doctors warn that it's no magic bullet; side effects include oily stools and diarrhea...
...MAINTAIN THAT, ER, PHYSIQUE OF YOURS? Well, let me say this. They don't call me the Bus because I turn down a lot of, ah, food opportunities. But I'm on a diet right now. I mean, it's not the Atkins diet or anything like that. It's watching the portions, maybe...
...Christina struggled with an eating disorder and an addiction to diet pills until her death from heart failure brought on by a suspected drug overdose in 1988, when Athina was just 3 years old. So her decision to take on the foundation surprised some observers. Athina has already shown signs of her mother's chutzpah and a willingness to go her own way. She dropped out of high school at 17, but became a talented horsewoman and linguist. She renounced the Onassis name at the urging of her father, Thierry Roussel, at the age of 13, telling judges that...